Review Essays

Recently Received Books: Regional Focus on Africa & the Middle East

Hezbollah: A Short History

Hezbollah: A Short History
By Augustus Richard Norton

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 187pp.

Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder after 1914

Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder
after 1914

By Martin Thomas

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. 428pp.

* Cross-listed in Theory, Philosophy & History
Humanitarianism, Intervention & Terrorism

Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a

Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a
By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. 324pp.

* Cross-listed in Development, Democracy & Health
Religion, Race, Ethnicity & Culture

New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance

New News Out of Africa:
Uncovering Africa's Renaissance

By Charlayne Hunter-Gault

New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 189pp.

* Cross-listed in Development, Democracy & Health

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